The dangers of trying to “beat the market”: Bogle warns against the temptation to try to “beat the market” through active trading or picking individual stocks, as this approach is often unsuccessful and can be costly.

The value of diversification: Bogle advocates for diversifying one’s portfolio across a wide range of asset classes, to help reduce risk and improve long-term returns.

The importance of minimizing costs: Bogle argues that investors should focus on minimizing the costs of their investments, including expense ratios and trading fees, as these costs can eat into returns over time.

The Little Book of Common Sense Investing: The Only Way to Guarantee Your Fair Share of Stock Market Returns.

The series focus is to present finance strategies in general and understandable terms. The series includes The Little Book That Beats the Market by Joel Greenblatt (Wiley, 2005), ISBN 978-6-5 and The Little Book of Value Investing by Christopher H. This is the third book in Wiley's 'LITTLE BOOK.

What several investors and academics-from Warren Buffett and Benjamin Graham to Paul Samuelson and Burton Malkiel-have to say about index investing.

How compounding returns are overwhelmed by the compounding costs.

How to overcome the impact of investment costs, taxes, and inflation.Why Bogle thinks that business reality-dividend yields and earnings growth-is more important than market expectations.

The book elaborates on the same practice of index investing that Bogle built the Vanguard Group around to turn a profit for clients. This is the sixth book by Bogle, and he writes that 'the simplest and most efficient investment strategy is to buy and hold all of the nation’s publicly held businesses at very low cost.' Bogle maintains that the 'classic index fund' that owns this market portfolio is the only investment that guarantees a fair share of stock market returns. The new edition features updated charts & data up until the year 2016, and a new introductory chapter. On Octoa 2nd updated & revised 10th Anniversary Edition was published. Trying to beat the market 'is a loser's game,' according to Bogle and 'the more the managers and brokers take, the less investors make.' He focuses on index funds, which will give the investor the average market return, and on keeping investing costs low, so that the index fund investor will consistently do better than other investors after costs are considered. Bogle, the founder and former CEO of the Vanguard Group. The Little Book of Common Sense Investing: The Only Way to Guarantee Your Fair Share of Stock Market Returns is a 20 book on index investing, by John C.

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